May 25, 2020 New Zealand will stage a team-based tennis tournament for local-based men’s players from June 3, organisers said on Monday. The event will mark the southern hemisphere’s first professional competition since the coronavirus pandemic brought global sport to a halt. All 112 matches of the “NZ Premier League” will be played in Auckland
9:36 AM ET Associated Press The French tennis federation will set aside €9 million ($9.8 million) for its players who financially struggle as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The money will come from a larger €35 million ($38.1 million) support plan for French tennis as a whole. It will go to the players ranked
8:16 AM ET Lou DiBella has a small list. He keeps it close because he’s never quite sure when a name will pop into his head. It could be when he’s lying down to sleep or when he wakes up in the morning. Or perhaps when something reminds him of an old friend or business
7:37 AM ET UFC president Dana White has been touting Fight Island for over six weeks, during which time he’s been asked about it at every opportunity. But his plans remain shrouded in mystery. Where is the island? When will it debut? Who will fight there? White has said the concept of fighting on an
7:59 AM ET Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush voiced strong concerns over the NCAA’s recent support of a player endorsement plan, saying that paying college athletes for their names and likeness is “going to destroy some people.” Bush, whose outstanding career at USC was marred by his eventual forfeiture of the 2005 Heisman Trophy, touched
7:58 AM ET World No. 27, Nikoloz Basilashvili, has been charged with assaulting his former wife, his lawyer Irma Chkadua said. The Georgian has denied allegations that he attacked his former wife in front of their five-year-old son and he has been released on $26,000 bail. The preliminary court hearing is scheduled for July 16.
7:00 AM ET Usually, the ol’ ZiPS projection system gets a much-needed break at this time of the season. After all, there are actual games of baseball to talk about. Except with the 2020 season significantly delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, all the games, at least of the MLB variety, are purely theoretical ones.
6:00 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rodney Smith was looking for a three-peat. The new Carolina Panthers running back tweaked his recipe for success from the previous two years, knowing you don’t improve without putting in the extra time and practice to get better. He thought he’d spiced things up with just the right blend
7:20 AM ET Leaps into swimming pools. Emotional moments of jubilation. Tears of joy. Fifteen words delivered by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell — “With the fifth pick in the 2020 NFL draft, the Miami Dolphins select Tua Tagovailoa” — elicited all that plus a belief the moment will change the Dolphins’ franchise forever. Over the
7:00 AM ET Kentucky coach Mark Stoops stood in the middle of a crowded visitors locker room on Sept. 8, 2018, and surveyed the postgame celebration. Coaches bear-hugged one another. Players grinned and bobbed their heads to the music thumping in the background. Everyone, it seemed, was screaming. It had taken them too long to